Networking day

The Silesian Medical University in Katowice is offering the opportunity to visit and tour the Medical Simulation Centre in Katowice on 15 June 2024, where anyone interested will be able to familiarise themselves with the conditions and principles of work in an operating theatre, intensive care room or emergency ward, among others.

The Medical University of Silesia in Katowice uses medical simulation centres in the process of teaching many subjects, at all stages of education, from the first years of studies to specialised postgraduate training. The centres form the most modern and largest simulation base in Poland organised within a single university. 

The Centre houses, among others, simulation rooms: an operating theatre, an intensive care room, two rooms of a hospital emergency department, a paediatric room and a delivery room, as well as an area adapted for the simulation of pre-hospital events with an ambulance simulator.  The centre is also equipped with phantoms and trainers for the implementation of activities in a simulation setting. 

Supervisor:

Dr. Kamil Baranski - 531 977 808

SPIN-Lab Center for the Microscopic Study of Matter SPIN-Lab is a Research Center that consolidates the microscopic competences of the University of Silesia. In the modern building of the Center, located on the Chorzów campus, are placed unique microscopes that complement the University's resources, such as:

• transmission electron microscope adapted for examination in cryogenic conditions (JEOL, F200)

• scanning electron microscope coupled with a xenon ion gun (Tescan, AmberX)

• scanning electron microscope with EDX, WDX detectors and Raman spectrometer (Tescan, Clara)

• confocal microscope with a white laser (Leica, Stellaris 8)

• X-ray microtomograph (Tescan, UniTOM HR)

The Center's equipment enables multi-aspect correlation research on matter, in particular soft matter, contributing, among other, to the development of modern materials and nanomaterials used in medicine, pharmacy, aviation and automotive.

Director of the Centre: dr inż. Marcin Libera

Phone: +48 572 334 816

E-mail: marcin.libera@us.edu.pl

Walking lines in the field, Richard Long unseals the traditional approach to sculpture. Its scope spreads over kilometres, including the wanderer’s body, and other species whose trajectories it crosses, topographical relief, atmospheric conditions. Observing the landscape slowly, at walking pace, makes you aware of the network of environmental dependencies. It cumulates traces of scorching sun, sweat, dust, pollen, involuntarily deposited on the surface of your skin.

In the “Adjacency” exhibition, such pacing the distance out with your own body has become an impulse to take a look at an archive of moves, performed by the invited artists within their private mappings. Most of them have long studied the matter of the earth, making attempts at reading it. In their works, the ground appears as the effect of crumbled hierarchies, residue of diverse lifeforms, welded in the subsequent layers. It contains the record of changing coastlines of old seas, trails of former riverbeds, stories of volcanic eruptions, droughts and glaciations. Here, the stratigraphy of terrain is a register of departed processes, a repository of encoded texts, bearing traces of individual and generational biographies.

Each component of the title adjacency practice contains a rudiment of activity, waiting to happen. It encourages mapping of the future, based on potential alliances and connections. Richard Long’s walking turns out to be a meditation of the body, wrestling its own materiality. As an activity, it offers a soothing vision of catharsis of imagination, focused on a seemingly simple task: taking subsequent steps connecting you to the earth.

Participants: Alicja Bielawska, Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Kaitlin Bryson, Grzegorz Hańderek, Petra Janda, Richard Long, Cecylia Malik, Justyna Mędrala, Silvia Noronha, Michał Smandek, Saša Spačal, Jakub Stelmach, Maria Stokłosa, Mikołaj Szpaczyński, Iza Tarasewicz, Isolde Venrooy

Curator: Marta Lisok

European Health Tech Innovation Centre – EHTIC – is a modern scientific and research centre of the Silesian University of Technology supporting the processes of creation, development and implementation of new technologies applicable in medicine, rehabilitation or sports. It is the largest such investment in Central and Eastern Europe, equipped with world-class, state-of-the-art hardware, software and highly specialised laboratories, including:

• Computer Vision and Virtual Reality Laboratory,
• Surgical Planning Laboratory,
• Rapid Prototyping Laboratory,
• Biomechatronic Devices Design Assistance Laboratory,
• Locomotor System Research Laboratory,
• Control & Measurement Systems and Biometrics Laboratory,
• Biomorphic Materials Laboratory,
• Dental Engineering Laboratory,
• Laboratory for Mechanical Testing of Medical Devices,
• Implant Structure Testing Laboratory,
• Laboratory for Implant Surface Functionalization,

The research and technology infrastructure of the EHTIC is used by experienced researchers from the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering of Silesian University of Technology to design, create and develop innovative technologies related to bioinformatics, bioelectronics, biomechatronics or biomaterials. EHTIC research teams participate in the development of new research methods and the improvement of existing ones. An equally important element of the activities is the transfer of knowledge and technology to society, for example through the organisation of training courses and seminars or the sharing of our research results.

Workshop classes while we show the effects of work at The Calypso Platform.

The CALYPSO fact-checking platform primarily used to break through the easily clickable falsehood of written media information. We will also offer workshop participants experiments with various forms of video, including deepfakes in media coverage, which are much easier for recipients to understand than written information texts.

Instructors

mgr Ilona Ptak

red. Patryk Mataniak 

dr Tomasz Staś 

dr hab. Anna Musialik-Chmiel, prof. UE 

contact: +48 516-839 707 

anna.musialik-chmiel@uekat.pl

During the workshops, participants will be able to find answers to several questions related to the activity of the muscles of the human body. How do muscles produce the force necessary to maintain body position and overcome external resistance? When and under what conditions are muscles active? What properties of muscle activity allow the study of their work and the extent of involvement in various tasks? 

We will acquire the latest methods for assessing muscle activity and their use in medical and sports diagnostics. All willing participants can see for themselves whether and how their muscles work. I invite you to participate in the workshops!

Instructor

dr hab. Grzegorz Sobota

Nr tel. 322075188, e-mail: g.sobota@awf.katowice.pl

Laboratory of Biomechanics, Department of Human Motor Behavior

Academy of Physical Education in Katowice

During the workshops, both theoretical and practical aspects of assessing the physical fitness of physically active individuals and athletes will be discussed. Theoretical foundations will be presented, providing the basis for understanding why regular assessment of physical fitness is essential and how its monitoring can contribute to improved athletic performance, reduced injury risk, and better management of training loads.

Modern technologies used in the assessment and monitoring of physical fitness will be presented, along with various assessment methods such as body composition measurements, muscle strength and power evaluation, and motor coordination assessment. Participants will have the opportunity not only to gain theoretical knowledge but also to test themselves using the discussed tools and methods.

Instructor:

dr Mariola Gepfert

e-mail: m.gepfert@awf.katowice.pl

Department of Sports Training

Academy of Physical Education in Katowice

We kindly invite to visit The Scientific Information Center and Academic Library – common library of the University of Silesia and the University of Economics in Katowice. It is one of the most modern information centers providing support for education, culture and business. The library was opened to users on September 27, 2012. It is located in the heart of the university campus, in the center of the Silesian agglomeration. The CINiBA offers its services to scientists and students, but also to inhabitants of Katowice and the entire region. Good organization of space (places for individual and group work, for reading press, for rest) results in identification of the library as a place suitable for intellectual meetings and where you can spend your time pleasant way. 

The CINiBA organizes educational and cultural events addressed to the academic community, inhabitants of the region and other guests. The Center is open to all readers, and access to its resources is free. The library's open character is testified by free access to national and internstional publications in a traditional and electronic form, professional help from librarians, friendly architecture, the latest technologies and solutions. It is a library open to users, new ideas and innovative solutions. Place popularizing readership, creating an information society, supporting intellectual development, science and culture.

Supervisor: Mgr Magdalena Krzyżanowska 

Department of Access to Collections and Scientific Information

tel. 032 786 51 34, e-mail: Magdalena.Krzyzanowska@ciniba.edu.pl